108 reviews for this add-on

Searching via context menu is one of the most important functions in the browser, and DS does it with the best combination of simplicity and effectiveness.

I only wish that more than four engines could be added, and perhaps optional submenus.

Rated 5 out of 5

by Paul B., 8 years ago

Reply to Foad Amoon: search for the addon "WikiLook". It does what you ask, and I tried it successfully. (This DictionarySearch addon ended up being better for my needs, but WikiLook was the other good one, of the many I tried recently).

Rated 5 out of 5

by fdg dfg, 8 years ago

defintion in a pop up

Can the definition of the word (of a default configurable dictionary) show up in a Pop up frame without any click, once high lighted after a certain delay?

Rated 3 out of 5

by Foad Amoon, 8 years ago

Perfect search addition.

I was happily using Conquery before, until I upgraded to ff3.6 last week, and conquery became unusably out-of-date (conflicts with gesture extensions, after hacking the rdf).

I tried numerous replacements this week. All of them used a popout submenu, without an option to just embed the searches in the main contextmenu.

This addon is ideal for anyone looking to add 1-4 extra searches, with minimal overhead.

Rated 5 out of 5

by fdg dfg, 8 years ago

Invaluable for Firefox!

Here's my latest reworking of Jaap's great extension that works with FF 3.6. You can d/l it here: http://www.divshare.com/download/10241649-6f2

Rated 5 out of 5

by Splat_NJ, 8 years ago

This add-on does not appear with the clicking of the Right mouse button or function when installed in Thunderbird 3.0.

Am I missing something.

Thank you,

Major Howland

Rated 1 out of 5

by Raven, 8 years ago

DictionarySearch is wonderful!

But can you add an option to have a sub menu for when using more then 1 Dictionary?

However if the user is only using 1 Dictionary then do not use the sub menu!

Rated 4 out of 5

by Superman1975, 8 years ago

Starting in Thunderbird add-ons DictSearch took me to this page which lists it as a Firefox add-on. 3.6.1 works fine in FX, but doesn't work in TB 3, and couldn't find a method to change the max version number in install.rdf simply because it reads it's for Firefox. Can "firefox" simply be changed to "thunderbird"?

Rated 4 out of 5

by MilesCh, 8 years ago

It works great with 1 word searches; however, when searching for a term that consists of more than one word, (e.g. "prima facie", "a priori", ...) it replaces the white space with a '+', which works on TFD, but never on Wikipedia. To address this issue, I would suggest a custom search where the user can replace the white space with whatever character they choose.

It's a good add-on, though. I've been using it for years. Thanks!

Rated 3 out of 5

by Sam, 8 years ago

It works great with 1 word searches; however, when searching for a term that consists of more than one word, (e.g. "prima facie", "a priori", ...) it replaces the white space with a '+', which works on TFD, but never on Wikipedia. To address this issue, I would suggest a custom search where the user can replace the white space with whatever character they choose.

It's a good add-on, though. I've been using it for years. Thanks!

Rated 3 out of 5

by Sam, 8 years ago

Simply great! I´d like to add more than 4 dictionaries. Anyway this adds is great.

Rated 5 out of 5

by Anonymous-2109604, 8 years ago

Beautiful. Simple. Works.

Using Firefox 3.6b1

Rated 5 out of 5

by UmarOMC, 8 years ago

8 Searchables Version

My modified version supports up to 8 user-definable searches. You can d/l it here: http://www.divshare.com/download/8012096-173

I hope you don't mind, Jaap.

Rated 5 out of 5

by Splat_NJ, 8 years ago

Awesome plugin, more dictionaries please!

Could it be possible to add support for more than 4 dictionaries? I use this addon to search specific sites like Amazon for text I highlight and to make URLs that aren't links into links etc. I currently wish to have more than 4 options and I know it's possible to do myself but everytime DictionarySearch or Firefox updates, I have to redo it. Awesome plugin though, thanks so much.

Rated 5 out of 5

by f8pc, 8 years ago

more functions please

it would be great if it has a double click search like dictionary tooltip addon

Rated 3 out of 5

by jimmyttl, 9 years ago

A great extension, but what happened to Thunderbird support? It's broken since version 3.0 of the extension. And bumping doesn't help either. I'd love to see Dictionary Search work with Thunderbird 3 again.

Rated 4 out of 5

by tibitts, 9 years ago

Here's an update for 3.5:http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/installation.html

Rated 5 out of 5

by histfubye, 9 years ago

Any chance this could get updated to work for 3.5?

Rated 5 out of 5

by Glenn Carr, 9 years ago

I already loved this somewhat simple search extension, but a big THANK YOU! goes to Tjaarddddd for adding more search entries. I emailed the author about this many months ago and never heard from him. This is now simply THE BEST search extension for FF.

Rated 5 out of 5

by Splat_NJ, 9 years ago

Great!

Very nice add-on! I had been looking for something like this for months.

I edited it to have more than 4 websites to search from (and be compatible with the new Firefox beta). This does seem to slow the context menu a tiny bit down though.

This version can use 6 sites:http://theorised.net/files/addon-68-latest(6dictionaries).xpi

and this one 8:http://theorised.net/files/addon-68-latest(8dictionaries).xpi

I hope this is ok with Jaap :)

Rated 4 out of 5

by Tjaarddddd, 9 years ago

Great, but...

This is probably the add on I use most often -- it basically turns any word or phrase on any Web page into an instant hyperlink, which is pretty damned amazing. The only problem is that you're limited to four (count 'em, 4) possible sites to search, which is FREAKISHLY limiting.

Come ON people! Fix this thing so us folks can add as many sites to search as we want. Then this would be the most absolutely PERFECT extension in the known universe.

Really. It would.

Rated 4 out of 5

by BooBoo Racer, 9 years ago

Great, but...

This is probably the add on I use most often -- it basically turns any word or phrase on any Web page into an instant hyperlink, which is pretty damned amazing. The only problem is that you're limited to four (count 'em, 4) possible sites to search, which is FREAKISHLY limiting.

Come ON people! Fix this thing so us folks can add as many sites to search as we want. Then this would be the most absolutely PERFECT extension in the known universe.

Really. It would.

Rated 4 out of 5

by BooBoo Racer, 9 years ago

Broken

My favorite and most-often used extension for years and years now, unfortunately, will not install at all under FF 3.0.8. Too bad.

Rated 1 out of 5

by Raphael Avital, 9 years ago

ANOTHER non-3.0.6 compatible add-on? :P Oddly enough, with versioncheck disabled, Right-Click-Link and DictionarySearch worked with the 3.1 betas but are broken with 3.0.6

Rated 5 out of 5

by UmarOMC, 9 years ago

Great

I really like this add-on. I prefer this to Advanced URL Builder because I don't have to go to sub menu before I can choose where to search. However, I want to search from more than 4 websites. Is there any possible way to do this?